Our Excellent Ingredients
Our Excellent Ingredients is a mural and series of augmented reality (AR) pop-ups in the Lake City neighborhood of Seattle, WA.
Art Interruptions connect neighborhoods through art.
Our Excellent Ingredients was designed to encourage viewers to walk though the neighborhood to discover all five AR pieces. It was created as part of the Art Interruptions program and commissioned by the City of Seattle Office of Arts and Culture as well as the Seattle Department of Transportation.
I create projects that celebrate how knowledge is documented, transferred, and preserved, especially when people are displaced.
Our Excellent Ingredients celebrates the food ingredients shared across the many cultures of the Lake City neighborhood. I learned from Lake City community members that one of the things they value about their neighborhood is that people have settled here from many different places bringing their food culture with them.
The cultural dimensions of food that are often passed person to person or between generations are—
Technical knowledge / know-how
Knowledge of the excellence of ingredients
The culture of tastes and what constitutes good food.
The neighbors of Lake City, share culinary ingredients across cultures: corn, rice, squash, tomatoes, and garlic. Each ingredient is celebrated with its own joyous design that features the food and the plant. Designs are viewable at the mural on 127th NE and 30th NE as well as in AR moments that can be walked to from the main mural.
Click to launch Google Map of Art Locations
To access the augmented reality (AR) elements using your Apple phone
Find the decals posted around the Lake City neighborhood.
Open the Camera app on your Apple phone
Hold your device so that the QR code appears in the viewfinder in the Camera app.
Tap the notification to open the link associated with the QR code.
Tap the image on the opened page - this will download the AR file.
The file will either automatically open in your phone’s AR viewer (Chrome) OR You will need to tap on the blue arrow at the top right of your screen to launch (Safari).
With the file open in your viewer, move your phone around till the art anchors to a horizontal surface.
Now you should be able to view the full piece in your surroundings.